Weekend Food Bags for Students From Helping Harvest
Helping Harvest runs the Weekender Program, which sends a bag of healthy, non-perishable food home on Fridays with students who are food insecure, so they have something to eat over the weekend.
The program is for students at participating school sites in Berks and Schuylkill counties. Helping Harvest supports nearly 90 program sites in the two counties and provides approximately 4,400 bags weekly. Over 133,500 weekender bags were distributed during 2025.
The page does not name the participating schools, does not say who decides which students receive a bag or how a family signs a child up, and does not say whether there is any cost. Helping Harvest's general-questions number is 610-926-5802, and its office is at 117 Morgan Drive, Reading, PA 19608, open Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The bags themselves go home with students at the school sites, not from that office. You can also write to marketing@helpingharvest.org.
One thing to know: Helping Harvest is actively seeking funding to support this program to continue serving children.
Source: helpingharvest.org/programs-2/youth-programs, read September 18, 2026.
The details
In Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank’s words
The Weekender Program addresses childhood hunger by sending a bag of healthy, non-perishable food home with students who are food insecure on Fridays to ensure they are nourished over the weekend. Currently, Helping Harvest supports nearly 90 program sites throughout Berks and Schuylkill counties providing approximately 4,400 bags weekly. Helping Harvest distributed over 133,500 weekender bags during 2025.
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Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank
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